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The Poorly Paid Workers Powering Automation w/ Phil Jones

Tech Won't Save Us

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The Most Successful Form of Collective Action on Mechanical Turk

Mik workes an struggled to organize on these sides. The instances of collective action that have emerged over the last sort of decade have tended to be shut down quite quickly. I think that greater possibilities for collective action might require forms of solidarity with other sections of the work force. We've already seen hints of this emerging between facebook employees and its outsource content moderators. There's certainly nothing solid so when facebook employees walked out because facebook hadn't taken sufficient action against donald trump, content moderators wrote a letter of solidarity to fa book's employees.

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